Posts by sparrowdown

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Wearing a Guy Fawkes mask outside a JW Convention.

by SonoftheTrinity in

i don't want my wife recognizing me, but i feel like making an anti-jw scene.

sparrowdown

A Stephen Lett mask would be better, you will be signing Bibles and posing for selfies.

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Did You Get Invited to the Memorial?

by Ding in

i'm just wondering if jws keep inviting you back or if they've given up on you.. they haven't invited me for years..

sparrowdown

Memorial season, just like constipation and all of WT's failed prophecies - it will pass.

But no, no invite.

I am pretty sure there was movement at the station and word has got around that "......whisper, whisper.... shh. Have you heard.....sparrowdown is a ....is a........apostate!"

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Whatever happened to "YOU'RE WELCOME"? Has "NO PROBLEM" replaced it?

by Terry in

jw
friends

wherever i go, i say "thank you" to clerks, servers, delivery people, hosts and hostesses and the response has become invariable: "no problem!".

have i aged to the point i'm now an old fuddy duddy who doesn't "get it"?.

is it counted mannerly to avoid, "you're welcome" in favor of "no problem"?.

sparrowdown

Nah, your way hotter! Don't sell yourself short.

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A Troubling Culture: JW Group Think vs. Individual Critical Thinking

by MicaSmith in

i had no idea that the resistance, governance, and duplicity i am experiencing as a jehovah witness is actually part of a bigger behavioral issue that permeates the entire jehovah witness culture.. i was troubled by the fact that many persons who have been crushed by the unfair practices of jw leadership described themselves as former members of the jw cult, and, or, apostates.

the latter bothered me to a greater degree because i felt the word apostate has been overused by jw's leadership and members.

anyone who disagrees with anything the governing body does or says is assigned the label an apostate.

sparrowdown

I am a proud apostate as the WT defines an apostate, but I actually prefer the term "awake" because for me, it means I am now conscious as in I am aware of my choices and that I am responsible for them.

For a cult's lies to be effective it takes two things the lies themselves and the person to believe and act on the lies.

I have chosen not to be the second part of that equation anymore.

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